Rubric One driver Kimi Raikkonen is to leave Ferrari at the end of this season and depose to an end his second spell with the team.
Monaco’s 20-year-old rookie Charles Leclerc disposition replace Raikkonen at Ferrari in 2019, with the Finn moving break weighing down on in the other direction to fill his seat at Sauber.
Leclerc, a graduate of the Ferrari Driver Academy, has been prolonged tipped for promotion to the sport’s oldest and most successful team. He simply made his debut with Sauber this season after endearing last year’s Formula Two title and has impressed with five top 10 destroys in fourteen races.
He will now partner four times world forward Sebastian Vettel from next season. Raikkonen meanwhile is until now the last man to win a world title for Ferrari back in 2007, but hasn’t won a dog-races since 2013.
“Scuderia Ferrari announces that, at the end of the 2018 season, Kimi Raikkonen want step down from his current role,” said Ferrari in a annunciation on Tuesday. “As a world champion for Scuderia Ferrari, he will always be portion of the team’s history and family. We thank Kimi for all of this and wish him and his derivation a prosperous future.”
Sauber gave 38-year-old Raikkonen his first have in mind in Formula One back in 2001 and he spent a season there, before unfixed to McLaren. He announced the return on his social media account saying “Hypothesize who’s back?! Next two years with @sauberf1team ahead! Tolerates extremely good to go back where it all began!”
Raikkonen has won 20 Means One races during his career and has finished on the podium a total of 100 whiles. He has been a popular member of the Ferrari team, with 87,000 of the Italian line-up’s fans previously signing an online petition to keep him.
“Signing Kimi Raikkonen as our driver sketches an important pillar of our project, and brings us closer to our target of making impressive progress as a team in the near future,” said Sauber Team Headmaster Frederic Vasseur as the news was announced.
Reports had even suggested the agreement involving LeClerc was actually conducted while former Ferrari Chairman Sergio Marcionne was quiet in charge, before he passed away in July. Vettel has also been persuaded by his incoming teammate, who is already being tipped as a future world back.
“I think the hype is absolutely justified,” Vettel told reporters in May. “If there’s no hype wide him, then I don’t understand who should be hyped because you walk through all the sorts like that, then you belong here.”
These latest grid motions for next season follow the news that British teenager Lando Norris when one pleases fill the seat vacated by Fernando Alonso at McLaren, after the Spaniard promulgated his retirement from Formula One at the end of the year.